Junior doctors to vote ‘NO’!

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JUNIOR doctors urged their colleagues yesterday to vote ‘NO’ and reject the so-called ‘deal’ struck by Tory health secretary Hunt and the...
CGT members marching in defence of jobs. French unions have called for a massive turnout next Tuesday in defence of pensions

FRANCE PENSIONS STRIKE SEPTEMBER 7th

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French trade unions met yesterday to finalise arrangements for ‘a day of strikes and demonstrations’ across France on September 7th. There is enormous anger over...

Myanmar military ‘extrajudicial killings’

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A PROTEST of over a hundred Burmese outside the Myanmar embassy in Mayfair, London yesterday demanded the release of their leaders arrested during the...

Labour MPs rebelling against Starmer’s brutal austerity cuts programme

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LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...

‘There Must Be National Strike Action! – To Win Back Our P&O Members’ Jobs’

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‘THERE must be national strike action by the whole RMT to win our P&O members their jobs back,’ leading RMT rep Darren Lalli said...
Students from all over the country lobbied parliament in February for the right to free English language courses

NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL

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Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...

NHS WHITE PAPER – BMA leader writes to GPs and students

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BMA Council Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, wrote to doctors and medical students yesterday, following publication of the health White Paper for England, which proposes...

Iran warns US-UK over Syria

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THE DEPUTY Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, yesterday warned that the United States faced ‘severe consequences’...

ANTI-IMMIGRATION BILL DENOUNCED WORLDWIDE says former Syria ambassador Ford

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THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...

‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA

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THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...

One million Gaza City residents are refusing to move!

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WHILE the Israeli regime escalated its ground invasion of Gaza City yesterday, around one million Palestinians are resisting the occupying force’s attempts to forcibly...

Netanyahu warrant

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A JUDGE in Spain has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seven other former and current Israeli officials over...

NO POWER FOR 9 DAYS! – ‘totally unacceptable’ says Kwarteng

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IT IS ‘totally unacceptable’, that over 4,000 households in North East England remain without power more than nine days after Storm Arwen tore down...
Teachers dressed up as Greek army officers along with the emblem of the military junta of 1967-74 outside the Greek Parliament, after the Greek government’s decision to put teachers under the ‘state emergency civil conscription’ laws’

Greek Teachers Fight Conscription!

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Over 15,000 teachers and their supporters responded to the call issued by the Executive of the State Secondary Teachers’ Trade Union OLME and staged...

Sack Serco demand Ealing Unite strikers

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EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...

NO MORE STALLING ON PAY! – warn physios as they launch strike ballot

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‘VOTE YES,’ the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) urged as it launched a strike ballot of the remainder of its 63,000 members in England...

Stop The Hospital Closures!

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LIBDEM Health Minister Burstow declared on Monday night that the coalition government was ‘right’ to announce the closure of Chase Farm Hospital ‘after years...

UK Refuses To Apologise For Balfour Declaration!

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PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...

MPs SPLIT ON BREXIT BILL!

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OPENING the debate in the House of Commons on the EU Withdrawal Bill, Brexit Secretary, David Davis, said the bill was ‘the next step...
Irish workers march through Dublin against the cost of bailing out the banks

IRISH BANKING CRISIS! – Helping to undermine the euro

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A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...
Section of the march in London during the last public sector strike on July 10 condemning the 1% pay rise

3 Days Of Public Sector Strikes

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ALMOST a quarter of a million civil servants will take part in 72 hours of action in the public sector with a strike on...
Living conditions could not be more primitive on the Eskdale estate with women cooking outside their one storey shacks next to an open drain

Fury At Gourmet Sell-Out Deal!

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the mass meeting of locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday afternoon that the sell out deal he has negotiated...

50,000 South African bankworkers to strike! – as miners vow to occupy mines to...

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Bankworkers union Sasbo (South African Society of Bank Officials) said South Africans should brace themselves for a complete standstill in the financial services sector...
Trade unionists demonstrating against pension cuts on June 30 – Workers are being threatened with new anti-union laws if they strike on November 30

Rights At Work Under Attack!

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THE TRADE UNIONS condemned huge attacks on workers’ rights announced by LibDem Business Secretary Cable yesterday. Declaring he intended to make the process of getting...
A section of the students’ and workers’ march in Athens

300 University Departments Occupied!

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GREEK students are deepening and extending their fight against the government’s Education Law passed by the Greek Vouli (parliament) last month. Over 300 university...

Tuc Must Act To Win Our Struggle

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GATE Gourmet workers who have been selected for compulsory redundancy angrily spoke to News Line over the weekend about letters they had received explaining...

Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the Tories

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‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...

Postal workers strike vote ‘biggest ever’ says CWU leader Dave Ward

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POSTAL workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking for pay, in a ballot of 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with...

18,000 NURSES FACE SACK! – says RCN

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‘The impact of deficits on NHS services and staff shows no sign of slowing down, with posts at risk of being lost to the...

Sixth Day Of Strike Action Against £2,500 Pay Cuts Per Annum!

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UNITE members at RATP London United yesterday held their sixth day of strike action against £2,500 per annum pay cuts being imposed by French...

UK accused of drone war crimes

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THE UK could well be ‘complicit’ in US War Crimes committed using drones, and could face prosecution, a new report released yesterday after...

Sack Woodley and Simpson!

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ANGRY Rover workers yesterday slammed their betrayal by trade union leaders, Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley, and Amicus General Secretary...

NHS has a privatisation & closure plague!

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A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...
Cadbury’s workers in London last December to fight for their jobs

MASSIVE JOBLESS RISE – greatest since 1992

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Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...

Britain Handing Detainees Over To Afghan Torturers

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Two judges will today hear allegations that the British government has been knowingly complicit, for a number of years, in the torture of British-arrested...
London firefighters on Thursday marched to the Fire Brigade headquarters where they decided to have a strike ballot to defend their jobs

Labour Split Threat

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EX-HOME Secretary Alan Johnson threatened a Labour split yesterday if Labour Party members voted to have Ed Miliband as Labour Party leader. He claimed the...
Postal workers marching during the General Strike in Belfast on January 18 2001 sparked by the sectarian killing of a young postal worker

Belfast Cwu – Still Out!

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Striking Belfast postal workers yesterday told union representatives that they are not going back to work. Communications Workers Union spokesman, Owen Davey, said after...

Labour leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff not the bosses’ says UCU

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LABOUR Party leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff, not the bosses’, says the UCU trade union. The union was responding to Labour leader Keir Starmer’s...

‘Stay Off Work From Next Monday’ Say Neu Leaders!

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MANY schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, say teachers’ leaders. ASCL general secretary Geoff...

TUC calls November 2 lobby of Parliament

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TUC leader Frances O’Grady welcomed delegates to the TUC Congress yesterday saying: ‘Welcome to the TUC, our parliament for working people. ‘Represented, here in the...

UK unis ‘to be the most expensive in world’

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Academics, students and community groups are celebrating a victory after University College London (UCL), one of the country’s leading institutions, agreed at last to...

26 College Principals received pay rises of over 10%

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ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...
Firefighters are determined to defend the fire service from a government that is determined to cut it to pieces

Negotiate or face the consequences! FBU leader Wrack warns government

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Bournemouth, yesterday took up the cudgels against privatisation and cuts in the fire, prison and probation services, Royal...

Obama Set To Slash US Budget

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US President Barack Obama unveiled his 2012 budget yesterday, describing the proposal as a ‘down payment’ on future cuts to the US budget...
Determined CWU picket line at Crawley Delivery Office on July 13th

Brown Backs Royal Mail Bosses!

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Postal workers yesterday responded angrily to Gordon Brown’s insistence at prime minister’s questions, on the eve of their 24-hour rolling strikes, that ‘pay settlements...